Sorting 

with Mrs. Vaage's Kindergarten

Dinosaurs

At the Dinosaur Land table, children would play with the little dinosaur models.

A natural extension of their play with the materials provided, the children sorted the dinosaurs into species groupings. Here you see the spinosaurs together, the pteradactyls off to the side, and the triceratops together in the crater.

These items were double sorted. First Christopher and Macey sorted separate items by color (cars, dogs, people, houses, trees, tents). Then they realized that each color strand had a set together. For example, all of the orange things belonged as a complete set, orange dogs belonged with the orange people which belonged with the orange cars, which belonged with...
Even numbers can be sorted. Notice that the color differences are being ignored, because the sorting rule is the "number."

Sorting by color using a tray to help sort. Carly had to problem solve when she realized there weren't enough compartments for all of the colors. Some colors had to share a compartment but be separated by space.
Children often sort the animals in the tubs to play with a particular one. Here is one example. Ben has sorted out all the little snakes from the reptile tub in the background so that he can make his snake house.